Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Twenty-nine times! That's how many times Joe Cosentino saw The Wizard of Oz movie, ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...

Looking for Oz? These days, you can't walk without tripping over it. There's "Wicked," of course. Part one of the gargantuan movie musical is in theaters now; part two drops November 21, 2025. There ...

There are some pretty major differences between L. Frank Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' and the iconic MGM musical.

NWA Audio Theater presents the Lux Radio Theater Version of this classic tale. Showing 2 p.m. Dec. 6 at the United Lutheran ...

“Wicked” – the movie, the Broadway musical and the book – crafts Dorothy’s green nemesis as a fully-formed character with her own tragic backstory. The book is a prequel to L. Frank Baum’s “The ...

More than 20 years after first premiering on Broadway and nearly 30 since the original book was published, "Wicked" has captured the minds and hearts of the public once more with the release of the ...

The Wizard of Oz was an entertainment franchise before franchises were a concept. The original 14-book series by Baum is a rich tapestry of dark fantasy with bizarre characters and settings. Many ...